Feed agitator



Dec. 28 1926.

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A. w. GRAY FEED AGITATOR Original Filed June 18, 1925 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 I Inventor Attorney Patented Dec. 28, 1926. 3. 532,.

UNITED STATES TENT OFFICE.

ALBERT W. GRAY, OF ELIDORA, IOWA.

FEED AGITATOR.

Original application filed June 18, 1926, Serial No. 116,874. Divided and this application filed October 21, 1926 Serial No. 143,212.

The present invention relates to a feed ings 21 in which are swingably mounted agiagitator, particularly designed for a hopper tator plates 22 carried on shafts 23 jour- 4a in a potato planter such as is shown in my naled in the hopper. Cranks 24 are joined pending application relating to seed potato to the shafts 23 and are connected to each cutters, Serial No. 116,874, filed June 18, other by a link 25. A bearing 26 is mount- 1926, and the subject matter of this present ed on a bracket 27 in the hopper l9 and suitinvention has been divided from said appli- 'ably supports a vertical shaft- 28 having a cation. crank 29 at its bottom end engaged with An important object of the invention is an intermediate portion of the link 25 as at to provide a device of this character with a 30, and a crank 31 at its upper end engages view to compactness and in which the numwith a connecting rod 32. A lever 34 is her of parts are few, the construction simrockably mounted on the rear side of the ple, and the cost of production low. hopper 19 in any suitable manner. This Another very important object of the in lever may be operated in any suitable manvention lies in the provision of a device of ner illustrated and explained in my copendthis nature which is exceedingly efficient and ing application. reliable in operation and well adapted to the Having thus described the invention, what purpose for which it is designed. I claim as new and desire to secure by Letith the above and numerous other obters Patent is:

20 jects in view, the invention consists in the 1. In a device of the class described, a construction, combination, and arrangement hopper, a pair of agitating plates rockably of parts as will be hereinafter more fully demounted in the bottom of the hopper, cranks scribed, illustrated in the accompanying extending from the plates, a link connecting drmvings, and pointed out in the claims the cranks, a vertical bearing in the hopper,

2.1 .3 hereunto appended. a shaft rockable in the vertical bearing and In the drawings: having a crank at its lower end engaged with Figure 1 is a fragmentary top plan view of the link, and a crank at its upper end, and

a seed potato cutter such as is shown in said means for imparting oscillation to the upper copcnding application, with my improved crank.

1 structure illustrated. 2. An agitating mechanism of the class Figure 2 is a vertical section through the described including, in combination, a pair hopper thereof. of agitating plates, means for rockably Figure 3 is another vertical section mounting the agitating plates, cranks exthrough the hopper. tending from the plates, a link connecting Figure 4 is a perspective view of one of the cranks, a vertical bearing, means for the agitator plates. mounting the vertical bearing, a. shaft rock- Referring to the drawing in detail it will able in the vertical bearing and having a be seen that the letter A denotes generally crank at its lower end engaged with the link, the seed potato cutter which has mounted and a crank at its upper end, and means for thereon a hopper 19, in the present instance imparting oscillation to the upper crank. adapted to receive whole seed potatoes. The In testimony whereof I affix my signature. bottoms 20 of the hopper 1.9 are slanted inwardly and downwardly and having open- ALBERT W. GRAY. 

